Emancipation Day 2025 Washington Dc

Emancipation Day 2025 Washington Dc. Emancipation day became an official holiday in 2005. “on emancipation day, people around the.

Sunday, april 14 is dc emancipation day, honoring the date president abraham lincoln signed the compensated emancipation act of 1862, which freed over 3,100 enslaved. In 2005, the city government officially made april 16 a public.